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@guest #20:

This house is just plain tacky. There is not one redeeming feature about this house other than it’s size. It is a large trendy mess, this will be laughed at in 10 years.

I am sure this is high end, but high end does not mean tasteful. Whether the astro turf is "high end" or not is irrelevant. It is still plastic grass on an otherwise fine outdoor deck. Is the art work high end? Anybody would would even consent to have their house staged with that junk has very little taste.

I know you are an interior designer and you are therefore the arbiter of all design. You are much more knowledgeable than I will ever be and yet you install astro turf.
Some design savvy…

This house is straight out of the Ed Hardy collection.

Astani didn’t get screwed at all. He actually got lucky that he got some money ($9M) to pay some legal fees and possibly pocket a few mil. More importantly, he gets out of the $25M PERSONAL GUARANTEE that he would otherwise owe to the lender.

And to the poster who mentioned that the units sold out in 8 hrs – They sure did. BUT at much lower prices than stipulated in the loan docs. Anything will sell out fast if you drop the price enough. Astani proforma-ed the units to sell above $600K a unit and I think most of the auction was done in the $400’s. I’m not a math whiz, but I don’t think that’s going to pay the lender back in full…

This pretty much confirms that the proposal for the city of Industry is a big nothing. The whole point of a plan that comes with a good hook or bait is for there to be financing already in place. What Ed Roski appears to be promoting is no more than all the empty land that he owns in the hinterlands of the San Gabriel Valley.

Aren’t all the football teams that are unhappy with their current stadiums least bothered by the chore of having to find new acreage for a new football field? What they’re instead desperate for are the millions and millions of dollars that will be needed to build on any piece of property they do latch onto. So why should they go to the trouble of moving to the city of Industry when there already is plenty of land in San Diego, Oakland, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, St Louis, etc?

@Downtowncommuter: Amen! For the record, I’m jealous of you. I grew up in LA but live in Fort Lauderdale now. Back in the late 80s, if someone had told me LA would both light and heavy rail within 20 years, I would have laughed.

Sadly, South Florida is decades behind LA. I tried taking the bus from Downtown Fort Lauderdale to school for classes. (My school is one of four higher ed schools clustered together with thousands of students on campuses daily.) That bus trip required 1 transfer and 105 minutes. (I can drive it in 20 minutes.) To add insult to injury, the last bus every night left at 9pm. Quite stupid considering evening classes at 3 of the 4 schools don’t end until 9 or 9:30pm.

Good. This is not a good location. Traffic is already unbearable as it is. I cannot believe nobody ever talks about this. The freeways in this area cannot hold anymore traffic. The notion that people in LA will use mass transit to get to Farmers field for games is simply delusional.

Its time to pay attention to the more reasonable proposal….the Ed Roski City of Industry proposal.

1. More space for parking
2. Bigger stadium.
3. Less congested area trafficwise.
4. Central to the urban sprawl of Greater LA, Orange, Inland Empire.

I know and expect the rage from all of you out of town-gentro hipster Curbed LAers about this. You might not care about the people or these areas but the NFL isn’t that stupid. You won’t fall off a cliff if you drive east of Downtown!

@guest #16: I’ve just reached my limit with the writers on this site, and this is my last visit. I exect Comments sections to be filled with snark and hate, but most of the articles themselves recently seem designed to make us feel a) inferior to the people who can buy or lease these properties (oh, the golden touch of the superlucky Mad Men designer whose life is grand) or b) bitter about the decisions made by coucnilmembers, city planners, property owners, or anyone over twenty-two years old. And what is with the ludicrous beauty contests of glorified phys ed teachers?

Sorry, Curbed: what looks to be a news-filled site of great interest is simply a boring hipster self-congratulatory outhouse, poorly designed.

@MikeDLA:

You hit the nail on the head. Ed L’s "many talented architects" are impossible to work with; they don’t understand a balance sheet, they’re overpriced and usually confused as to who is in charge of the project.

What gets built is what can be financed and what will be approved by the city, not what the Curbed audience of unemployable architects and wannabe planners think but won’t pay for. NMS actually knows how to make it work; if you and yours think you know better, step up and build.

Sure, they’re hideous, but well-deserved.
Expo wasn’t supposed to run across Lincoln at-grade.

First of all, the picture comparisons are a joke. Comparing Chinatown to the beach? Try comparing Chinatown to LA’s Chiinatown or Skid Row. Sunset in LA to Sunset along the Hudson River. How about subway crowds to the 405?? Sidewalk dining in LA vs UWS or the village.
I live in NYC. I have a park where my (large) dog runs leash off every morning, a view of the Hudson, and access to everything. I also love LA exactly because it’s different. As some have said, vertical .vs. horizontal, car .vs. foot. You didn’t try hard enough, so you’re probably better off where you are. You can enjoy both, i think. If I could afford it, I’d have a place in both cities. But at least you listened, if not to yourself, then to Ed Koch: "If you don’t like it. . .MOVE"

I caught the tail end of this while driving to work (job #2) this weekend. They really hit the nail on the head. The scary part were the parallels to data from 1929.

On a related note, the NY Times has an excellent Op-Ed piece from 11 economic experts (their words, not mine), with each giving their guess on when the recession will end. It’s not pretty, and the markets are still coming to terms with it. They’ve also had some enlightening articles about how China is being affected. When I was there a couple years ago, they were basically guaranteeing a ‘soft landing.’ Ooop!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/opinion/01endintro.html?_r=1

The Downtown News invited an Op-Ed response from the Angels Flight Railway Foundation, and the piece is published in the February 16 issue of that paper. An even more complete response (explaining why the Downtown News editorial’s suggestion that local government insert itself into the Angels Flight Railway’s restoration and reopening is such a BAD idea) is posted as a Comment to the original Downtown News editorial at:

http://downtownnews.com/articles/2009/02/09/news/opinion/02-09-09-edit01.txt

The private Foundation has almost completed the unexpectedly daunting restoration task.